Originally Posted by
mosburger
From what I understand, Nanjing South is more of a transit station for suburban and rural areas in Jiangsu and neighbouring Anhui. So mostly travellers who are very unfamiliar with any non-Chinese food and probably also prefer to carry their home-made food or cup noodles to the trains.
The urbanite Nanjing residents with broader tastes are still mostly using Nanjing main station, I would guess.
It is peculiar that many HSR stations seem to be in extremely inconvenient locations (Guangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai, Ji'nan, Changsha, Wuhan, Nanjing, all come to time). Sprawl planning?
Wrt Carl's Junior, if I owned that place, I'd try my hardest to get a stall on the platform in order to serve through passengers during their 2 minute station stops.